Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-02-05
CINCINNATI TOUCHED.
THE WATER FRONT COVERED TO A con-
SIDERABLE DEPTH.
Access to the Central Depot Cut OF and The People
In Scary ConiihOn--PlNd at Nashville
Mills in Rtsbay Forced 70
Shut DOwu

CINCINNATI, o., February 4.-The
river reached fifty -four feet eight inches at
IL o'slock to-day and is still rising at the
rate of an inch an hour. 1'heapparent de-
iiection 10 the north Of cold wave in
creases the possibility Of disastrous food
here. Aocess to the Central passenger
depot Is now cut oil, and the Cincinnati
Southern, the Cincinnati, Indianapolis,
ST. Louis and Chicago, and Ohio and Mis-.
sissipi, the Bee Line, the New York, Penn
sylvania and Ohio, the Cincinnati, Wash
ington and baltimore aud the Columbus
aud Cincinnati Midland roads are com.
pelled TO discharge and receive passengers
at the Eighth street crossing. Freight
movements are also seriously endangered,
aud little more rise will cut of some Of
the freight departments
The entire water front from Turkey Bot
toms to Mill Creek Valley is one long line
of human trepidation. At the public land.
ing the scene is confusing Half the people
are rushing TO get goods out OF the wet.
The other half are idlers taking In the
sights. Tobacco warehousemen are pre-
pairing to move their ponderuus packages.
The flood is creeping up on Water street,
aud Rat and Sausage rows are clean out of
sight. Merchants onSycamore, Main, Vine
and Walnut streets have moved their goods
to the second stories. Cellars on the pub
lie landing are full. The Newport ferry
anchors against q house at the foot of Iud.
low street, and the floats along the rows
bump against the houses. The big wharf
boats are high up the grade, and what rc.
mains Of dry ground is full of stevedores
and Others who are trying 10 get freight out
of the way.
The last steamboat out last night was
the Fleetwood. She had Ia take the or.
naments OF her pilot house an,. lower her
jackstaii 10 get under the Newport bridge
The Paris G. Brown has postponed her
departure for New Orleans until Tuesday
Of next week. No iIore big steamboats,
tan pass under the bridges until the flood
passes. Boats arriving will land above
the Newport bridge or below the Suspcn-
sion bridge
rise Of - feet will compel the Ohio
and Mississippi 10 transfer ut Storm sta
ton, but that is not expected now. II
will take a rise of G5 feet Ia shut out the
Panhandle depot, and ~ the water is only
raising inches an hour, with no probs.
bility Of its going over ~ feet, the Pan
handle people do not feel alarmed. There
will he no cessation Of passenger aud
freight traffic st their depot.
Disastrous floods are reported in the Big
Sandy, Little MAMA and the Licking
river. At Falmouth, on the latter river,
dstilleries aud saw mills aud other manu-
factories were submerged aud suffered
much loss. The river w.u- full Of the con.
tents Of fields aud granarie,. Many turn
pike bridges have been carried away
throughout the country. At Bntlrr, Ky,
the Licking is within few inches of the
highest mark known, which was in 1864.
In Newport, Ky, there is already con
siderable encroachmcnt OH the lower p0r
tions Of the city. SiN inches more oi
wafer will cut Oh street car travel between
Newport and Coyingion.